Recovery and Occupancy Period Point Temperature
The economic interest of intermittent heating systems in intermittently-occupied buildings (e.g. schools, office buildings) is no longer in doubt. Nevertheless, optimal energy consumption requires that the heating restart time be defined with great precision. In many cases, for fear of ill evaluation, the lowering of the temperature during non-occupancy period is minimal, which leads to reductions in energy savings. The aim of this article is to compare the precisions of the different methods for calculating heating restart times, and to study their impacts on comfort and on energy consumption. Several classical methods are studied. For example, the method where the system ...
